Specials: The Art of Televising the Arts

It was a week when most of the specials,
for a change, deserved the title of special. CBS led the parade with S.
Hurok PresentsPart II, and the indefatigable impresario produced a
musical program of a quality that television has not achieved in years.
Pianist Artur Rubinstein performed Beethoven's Concerto in G Major,
Violinist David Oistrakh played Bach's Concerto in A Minor, and the
Bolshoi Ballet danced a segment of Act II of Giselle. Throughout the
90-minute show, both music and ballet were presented on their own
termswithout the usual TV camera...